• Song:

    Shark Fin Blues

  • Artist:

    The Drones

  • Album:

    Wait Long By the River ...

D5  D5  C5  D5  A5  x2 
 
B5 / D5 
 
A5                              E5      D5 
Standing on the deck I watch my shadow stretch 
G5                        D5 
The sun pours my shadow upon that deck  
A5                              E5  D5 
The waters licking round my ankles now  
G5                        D5 
There ain't no sunshine way way down  
 

A5                              E5      D5 
I see the sharks are in the water like slicks of ink  
G5                        D5 
Well, there's one there bigger than a submarine  
A5                  E5  D5 
As he circles I look in his eye  
G5                        D5             
I see Jonah in his belly by the campfire light  
 

D5 
 
A5                              E5      D5 
Oh, an albatross up in the windy lofts  
G5                        D5 
He's beating his wings while he sleeps it off  
A5                              E5  D5 
I hear the jettisoned cries from his dreams unkind  
G5                        D5 
Yeah they're whippin' my ears like a riding crop  
 

A5                              E5      D5 
The captain once as able as a fink dandy  
G5                        D5 
He's now laid up in the galley like a dried out mink  
A5                              E5  D5 
He's laying dying of thirst and he says or I think  
G5                        D5 
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in  
 

E5                                    D5 
Well you're all my brothers, and you have been kind  
E5                        D5 
But what were you expecting to find? 
G5                                    B5 
Now your eyes turn inwards, countenance turns blank  
C5 
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain  
                                    B5 
It looks like nothing but the sea and sky oh remain  
 
Solo: 
A5  E5      D5  G5       D5  X 4 
 
D5 
 
A5                  E5      D5 
I sing na na nana nananana na  
G5                D5 
Na na nana nananana na  
 
(Na na's X 4) 
 

D5 
 
A5                              E5      D5 
A harpoon's shaft is short and wide  
G5                        D5 
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry  
A5                              E5  D5 
I said, why don't you get down in the sea  
G5                        D5 
Turn the water red like you want to be?  
 

A5                              E5      D5 
Cause if I cry another tear I'll be turned to dust  
G5                        D5 
No the sharks won't get me they don't feel loss  
A5                              E5  D5 
Just keep one eye on the horizon man, you best not blink  
G5                        D5 
They're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks  
 

A5        E5      D5   
Fin by fin  
G5       D5 
Fin by fin  
A5        E5      D5   
Fin by fin 
G5             D5  
Fin by fin by fin by fin 
 

D5  G5  D5  G5  A5  D5  G5  A5  D5  G5  A5  
 
 
Note: 
G5 - This is a D5 chord slid up to the 7th fret/ 

A5 - This is a D5 chord slid up to the 9th fret/ 
Like in Travelling Wilbury's "End of the line".
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